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low level hard drive access
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John
2004-01-03 17:59:24 UTC
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Maybe a very dumb question but How do I open a drive to access it
using low level stream operations?

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R.F. Pels
2004-01-03 18:36:49 UTC
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Post by John
Maybe a very dumb question but How do I open a drive to access it
using low level stream operations?
Ehh, open the device?
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John
2004-01-03 19:23:17 UTC
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cool, thanks open the device from /dev/hd[x]
is there any way to get the hdd infomation ie sector size?
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Post by John
Maybe a very dumb question but How do I open a drive to access it
using low level stream operations?
Ehh, open the device?
R.F. Pels
2004-01-03 19:36:57 UTC
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Post by John
cool, thanks open the device from /dev/hd[x]
is there any way to get the hdd infomation ie sector size?
Not that way. Use hdparm.
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John
2004-01-03 21:24:16 UTC
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ok thanks RF
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Post by John
cool, thanks open the device from /dev/hd[x]
is there any way to get the hdd infomation ie sector size?
Not that way. Use hdparm.
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2004-01-03 21:52:10 UTC
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Post by John
Maybe a very dumb question but How do I open a drive to access it
using low level stream operations?
open /dev/rawdevice[unit] or whatever your system
has convention for a disk raw device.
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